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“The ending to this scene, I know it. Sirix will fail to return and Serena will still continue to wait. Even though this is repeated multiple times, Sirix will still fail to return. Even though this...”
“My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.”
“There is a good guilt and a bad guilt... the good one Leeds us to ask for forgiveness the bad Leeds us to hide from God.”
“Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.”
“If we want to be able to pick up the pieces of our lives and go on living, we have to get over the irrationalfeeling that every misfortune is our fault, the direct result of our mistakes or misbeha...”
“You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometim...”
“But until that happens -- and however brief a life, it will take a while -- there is a terrible, hateful interlude that belongs to us alone, and during which we have no alternative but to cope with...”
“It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.”
“I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.”
“A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curs...”
“Guilt is what makes you accountable.”
“Our society cultivates guilt feelings in women such that many of us still feel guilty if we are anything less than an emotional service station to others.”
“Okay.I will go.But only ifyou will give meyour guiltto takewith me.”
“Never under estimate the power of guilt, in the end it will find its way to destroy you. The more you try to turn your back on it, the easier it is for it to stab you in the back.”
“We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages f...”
“We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.”
“But some mistakes can never be righted and the guilt eats away at the soul. Of all the emotions we have, I have learnt that guilt is the most corrosive. Anger passes quickly, and hatred mellows wit...”
“When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.”
“And guilt is heavy, like an anchor holding me in place and hindering any and all advancement.”
“All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins.”
